New Delhi: The Special Operations Group of Meerut Police on Thursday arrested a man suspected to be a member of a 50-strong gang that specialised in stealing vehicles and killing passengers for valuables.
According to the police, the man, Salim Qureshi, has confessed to killing at least five persons. Police suspect the gang was involved in the killing of at least 250 innocent people in the recent past.
"At least 50 of those killed were policemen," PTI quoted Meerut SSP Deepesh Juneja as saying.
Police sources claimed the SOG arrested Salim from near a petrol pump in Meerut on the basis of a tip-off. Police recovered a mobile phone and papers of a stolen pickup truck.
Police zeroed in on the man by using electronic surveillence based on the mobile phone of a medical representative he was carrying. The medical representative was one of the victims killed in the recent times, Juneja added.
Explaining the modus operandi of the gang, the SSP said the gangsters used the stolen vehicles as maxi cabs outside railway stations and bus stands.
Gullible passengers were then made to sit in the middle while other gangsters, posing as passengers, used to occupy seats on either sides.
The gangsters sitting on the rear seats used to later strangulate the passenger with a 'gamcha' (towel) and dump his body on highways and decamp with valuables.
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